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Chapter 36

#Chapter 36: Anatomy Ace

Nina

I had an anatomy exam the next day and after my shift with Tiffany I needed to get some studying done. It was nice and sunny out, which was a welcome relief after the weather being gloomy and rainy for the past couple of days, so I decided to find a spot to sit under a tree where there were few people.

A few minutes after I sat down in a spot a little ways out from campus in a quiet park, Luke showed up. He walked over to me and stood right in the way of the light.

“You’re blocking the sunlight,” I said, not looking up from my notebook.

“Oh. Sorry,” he said, stepping out of the way. He continued to stand there, just staring at me. I tried my best to ignore it in the hopes that he would just go away since I was not in a good mood

at all after seeing Enzo’s hickey, but he didn’t budge. Finally, I slammed down my pencil and glared up at him.

“If you’re gonna hang around, at least sit down or something,” I growled.

“Okay.” He immediately plopped down on the ground.

I couldn’t help but smirk a bit, amused

by his doglike obedience.

“What’s so funny?” he asked, cocking his head. As he did so, I could hear the faint rattle of his vertebrae clacking together.

“Nothing,” I replied, returning to my work. “You’re just… Do you have any thoughts of your own?”

Luke was silent for several moments

course I do,”

said finally.

don’t you

time. After about ten minutes, when I had become reabsorbed in my studying and thought for sure that he had gone dormant or something, he suddenly spoke again. novelxo.com

a mistake

and furrowed my

I had a diagram of a skull with notes scribbled on it. “Right there. You got your terms mixed up. It’s occipital

stared at my notes

was right and

I could fix

“Thanks,” I muttered.

No problem.

again, only to notice eventually that

muttered,

sighed and looked up from my work

for facial expression, not supporting the lacrimal apparatus. That would be the

I realized that Luke

you know all this?”

himself. “I am a skeleton, after all. And besides, remember that I’ve spent decades in an

pick up on things here

you have any other pointers you can

“Yes, actually…”

all of the bones were on his own skeleton. He was incredibly literal and couldn’t take a joke, but it was still surprisingly nice to spend time with someone who wasn’t either trying to backstab me or

the end of

gained two

anatomy, and a

friend.

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